TEED 5022 - Assessment Strand Resources

Seattle University - Master in Program


This site supports the assessment strand of this course, TEED 5022.
I will place files and useful links here as we work our way through the quarter.


Here is a document that provides an overview, summary of the reading assignments, and session-specific learning targets for sessions throughout the entire assessment strand:



Here are some likely session-specific resources:

9 January 2018






12 January 2018







16 January 2018



30 January 2018



2 February 2018 (morning)





2 February 2018 (afternoon)






6 February 2018
Jigsaw Presentations Happen Today




12 February 2018
Here is the encyclopedia article:

Please read it and come to class prepared to respond to the given focus questions.





Here is a link to the OSPI web page on CBAs (Classroom-Based Assessments):
http://www.k12.wa.us/SocialStudies/Assessments/default.aspx
Scroll down to "High School" and, under "Civics" > "Checks and Balances," click on "Assessment"

6 March 2018

Note: To access the Greenwood article, you can use the SU library ( https://www.seattleu.edu/library/ ).
Use "Primo" to search for "Mathematical Power and Mathematical Thinking Greenwood." (Click "Availability," and use JSTOR)








9 March 2018










http://www.smarterbalanced.org/assessments/practice-and-training-tests/





Here is an article asserting a link between cognitive and emotional aspects of learning.
Consider disposition targets in this light. "Emotions help steers students' thinking, scholar finds."

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Optional: Here is a link to the piece by Hugh Burkhardt, "Engineering Good Math Tests



Here is a video that sets up a simple (perhaps simplistic) rationale for Standards-Based Grading
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNKHF5ywouQ







Here's the NY Times Nov '15 story about the NAEP scores decline

Here is a link to a 5 March 2015 Seattle Times article about the Seattle School Board's consideration of a proposal to suspend use of new "Smarter Balanced" tests:
http://www.seattletimes.com/news/seattle-school-board-hints-it-needs-time-to-weigh-halting-tests/

Here is a link to a 27 Feb 2015 Seattle Times article about Nathan Hale HS's decision to boycott "Smarter Balanced" tests for its 11th graders:
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/education/nathan-hale-to-boycott-new-test-faces-loss-of-some-federal-money/

Here is a link to a "Hot Topics" sheet put out by OSPI regarding "Smarter Balanced" testing and its implementation in Washington schools:
http://k12.wa.us/Communications/HotTopics/HotTopic-CommonCore.pdf

Here is a link to the Fall-Winter 2010 edition (vol 16 No 1) of Education Northwest Magazine.
Go to page 35 and you will find the Research Brief, "Why students decide to drop out: Identifying Institutional Characteristics" by Basha Krasnoff.

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Here's a webpage that will allow you to access sample test items from the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) standardized tests for common core standards:
http://www.smarterbalanced.org/assessments/practice-and-training-tests/
Go there and skim the text on the page, then click on "Go to the tests," sign in as a guest and try taking one of the sample training tests.

Be ready to respond to these questions:
a.) Which of Stiggins' four assessment methods are being used?
b.) What is being tested?
c.) Based on these items (a very limited sample, to be sure) what is the purpose of this assessment?
d.) Who, if anyone, is favored by the structure and content of the test?

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on a related note, here is an NPR piece about trouble in Tennessee with computer-based testing:

The State That Pulled The Plug On Computer Testing

February 20, 20167:00 AM ET




More resources:

Web-based rating scale generators:
**ThemeSpark** https://www.themespark.net

PBL Checklists http://pblchecklist.4teachers.org/

Rubistar http://rubistar.4teachers.org/

iRubric http://www.rcampus.com/indexrubric.cfm


Article: "PISA: It's Poverty Not Stupid"



Don't Prevent Students' Mistakes, Prepare for Them

David Ginsburg

And, because everyone needs this:
http://hint.fm/wind/

Links
OSPI: http://www.k12.wa.us/